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NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya ...
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Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research
A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively than ever before that Americans’ self-reported race is a ...
NIH Director's COVID Comments Spark Staff Walkout
TUESDAY, May 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dozens of staff at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) walked out of a ...
Trump's NIH director said agency 'got rid' of all beagle experiments on campus. Here's what we know
Animal welfare groups had long accused the National Institutes of Health of killing thousands of beagles in septic shock experiments.
CNN's Dana Bash to Trump Budget Director: Explain Why You Want To Cut Cancer And AIDS Research Funding
White House budget director Russ Vought spoke to CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday morning. With a chyron reading "Meet the man ...
The threat to the NIH
Begun as a single-room laboratory in a Staten Island hospital in 1887, the NIH has ballooned into a $47 billion organization ...
Plan to restructure NIH would stall science, not streamline it
The current system of specialized institutes at the NIH has led to transformative breakthroughs in cancer therapies, heart ...
County Supervisors OK resolution opposing NIH cuts
The cuts are part of an effort by President Donald Trump's administration to make the government more efficient, but local ...
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Some scholars want NIH to end DEI ban on grants, others say it’s needed
One of the groups pushing back against the new grant funding conditions is the Heterodox Academy, a nonprofit advocacy group “dedicated to advancing open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive ...
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "President Trump Restoring The Gain-of-Function Ban Is A Tremendous Step Forward"
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya celebrated ... has been ongoing on avian flu for over a decade from the NIH. Take a listen to this. SEN. RAND PAUL: Yes, the NIH has ...
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NIH director: Nutrition research must be replicable to ‘advance confidence’ in results
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Conflicting results in nutrition research has led to widespread confusion about optimal diets, Jay ...